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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Nov 24

Joined Twitter in 2015 to resist Trump. Can't believe we are back to square one. I am transitioning from X. Join me.

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Canada's B.C. softwood lumber U.S. tariffs now higher than Russia’s: ‘Let that sink in’
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B.C.’s softwood lumber U.S. tariffs now higher than Russia’s: ‘Let that sink in’ | Globalnews.ca

'This additional tariff means that Canadian wood has a higher tariff rate going to the United States than Russia does. I want to let that sink in,' Premier David Eby says.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 1d

One question: Did Tom Homan get caught on video accepting a $50,000 bribe from an undercover FBI agent? Four Trump administration officials with four different answers

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 1d

Robert De Niro: "We've had 2 and a half centuries of democracy. We've fought in 2 world wars to preserve it. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away. Fuck that." De Niro is asking people to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 1d

"Show us your face."
Chicago Man Roasts ICE "freaking kuck circus"

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 1d

Two ICE agents tried to chase an activist, with one falling to the ground outside the Broadview processing center in Illinois.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 2d

Keep going...

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 2d

This is who he has always been.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 2d

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 2d

Trump received the COVID-19 vaccine and flu shot during his second physical of the year www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 2d

Vance on Homan bribery allegations

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 2d

Trump riding around his golf club telling his rich members "your taxes are coming down" while the government is shutdown with thousands losing their jobs and health insurance

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Mar 3

It's like...

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 4d

The Handmaids in Orlando yesterday

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 4d

Former US Presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 6d

ICE Is Hounding Chicago Area Locals With Excessive Chemical Munitions. Firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, a lawsuit says, sickening even uninvolved residents. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

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Chicago Pastor Sues Trump Admin After Allegedly Being Shot by ICE Agents.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 6d

Gov. JB Pritzker on protecting his constituents after President Trump’s arrest threat: "This guy is unhinged. He’s insecure. He’s a wannabe dictator. And there’s one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump, If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 10d

A Toddler being detained and zip-tied as part of an early morning ICE raid in Chicago

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 10d

ICE stops a family at gunpoint & smashes their car window over a newborn baby

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 10d

This is what happens when education is underfunded for decades.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 25d

A woman protesting outside an ICE facility was attacked by agents with mace and sting balls.

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Donald felt threatened because these girls were old enough to say "no".

EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 26d

When asked if he really thought the women who protested him at a restaurant in DC should be jailed. Trump said, “Certainly, I thought it was very inappropriate. Yeah, I think they were a threat.”

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 25d

Hard to believe, but this is happening in the suburbs of Chicago.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 26d

When asked if he really thought the women who protested him at a restaurant in DC should be jailed. Trump said, “Certainly, I thought it was very inappropriate. Yeah, I think they were a threat.”

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